Will you just take a look at that tuckered out box of spraypaint. “For crying out loud Mary Ann,” I can hear some of you saying, “What happened to Operation Clean Nozzle? Where are the lids? Why are some of the cans missing nozzles? WHAT’S GOING ON OVER THERE?”
I’ll tell you what’s going on. It’s me playing Andy Warhol on crack. It all started the other day when I could not go One More Second without knowing how to make a sunburst starburst line thing. In my mind I could clearly see the stencil of my sister with these lines radiating from her head. So I went HERE to this Photoshop Tutorial where it says right there in black and white: Learn how to create rays simply and easily.
Well I’m going to tell you right now that is a big fat lie. So I decided to do it the old fashioned way. You know BEFORE Photoshop existed. I mean surely Burst of Rays were being made back then.
I apologize for the unattractive backdrop, but this is not a stage set. This is a spraypaint crime scene. Nozzles are routinely zinging through the air, lids are getting tossed, things are pushed out of the way, cans are falling over, an ant is crawling up my leg, and in the middle of all this I’m running out of spray adhesive. WHAT?! (insert blood curdling scream here) That’s NOT something you can run out of when you’re in the middle of what is possibly your most staggering work of heartbreaking genius. Can you? NO! I did what any sensible person would do at this point. I went in the kitchen and ransacked the drawers looking for adhesive substitute. I found some! Skewers! You hold them like chopsticks, only you have 4 in your hand instead of 2, and they are very good stencil holder downers. Think Edward Scissorhands.
More frivolity and foolishness. Then I added some floral stencils to yesterdays bookcovers. Today, another round of decoration. Tomorrow, who knows? This is all pure experimentation & play which means the entire lot of it will become Mailart at some point.
Oh the ideas were coming one right after another! Let’s have another glass of iced tea with lemon! Someone hide her circular dot halo stencils!
In between fetching spraypaint nozzles Wyatt did his best to look bored and unconcerned with the brouhaha happening out back.
Wyatt, you make sleeping look good dude. Tell your Mommy she’s ingested too many spray paint fumes and she should get her addiction under control right now. Just kidding, spray away, Dispatch from LA. What will be next from Mama Moss? Stay tuned…
your stencil art ROCKS! you are making those pieces sing! kudos!!
I love it!!! Your spray paint box, too!!!! Ohh… I am itchin’ to do some creating…. just don’t have the energy after meetings… don’t have my school stamina yet… but it will get here!!! And yes… those meetings can be a great big snore…zzzzz…
However… today we heard a fabulous speaker…Liz Murray… the Lifetime movie “Homeless to Harvard” was based on her life. Wow… what presence… what a message…I could have listened to this young lady…she is about 26… all day.
Yes… we start way too early. We don’t get out until around the 1st of June.
Excellent stuff. Those stencil portraits are fabulous!!!
Eye Heart Mary Ann…
soooooooooo
much
this is my kinda
crime scene
… my cans left their lids in the drive the day they got here…
xox – eb.
What is it with spray paint that is so exciting? Have you tried krylon H2O spray paint. I have found the best prices and colors at Walmart. The paint is so much less toxic than the brands I see in your box. Your designs are wonderful!!
Hello – first time here – so much to look at, and fun to read!! Too cool!!
I have NO idea where to start commenting. It’s just too much (in a good way).
Those sun rays are SO “Chairman Mao” propaganda poster.
New heights my Darling, new heights.
Oh, I love it! Love seeing you in action!!!! Oh, C’mon, don’t be so hard on yourself… So the tops are gone… No prob…. Write the color on the side with white out or somethin’, I love the topless look… Wait, You know what I mean.. xxo
Can’t remember–have you stenciled the Cat Posse? Well, not stenciled ON them, but OF them. Altho, if there’s a way to stencil ON a cat, you’ll find one! More about stencil adhesive, please!
those rays are rockin! and i’m busting a gut at the skewer talk…have several bags here cuz i don’t use adhesive. too mucky because i never remember which side i sprayed with it. CRIME SCENE – best description! No wait, Edward Scissorhands…EVEN BETTER. Still laughing. You kill me.
I can not even believe that those covers got even better! That cat needs a belly kiss for sure!!
ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH, These are the best, I love messsy spray paint cans, Skewers? What a great idea!!
Oh holy googlie mooglies! Enough eye candy to send me into shock! *babbles words not even invented yet* And now my hands twitch with excitement wanting to go run out and buy every spraypaint can available to man erm woman! ;o) I can just picture myself at the checkout with eyes glazed over and hands shaking while going through my wallet searching for every available funds LOL
Whoa whoa WHOA…I should be using adhesive on my stencils? *sighs* No wonder why I’m creating stenciled blobs! The paint gets under the paper. Currently I’m using paper clips. Not working so well. Care to share your wisdom with this newbie? Do you apply spray adhesive to whole thing and is it hard to take off later?
I couldn’t photoshop the ray thing either so I scanned a dart board and tweeked it for a stencil. I like your big bold rays.
I am just drooling over those stencils….awesome!
These particular types of posts should have a WARNING sign at the beginning….fasten seat belts, remove dentures…